Science: Darwin in Song - NYTimes.com/Video

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species," the Times profiles Richard Milner, a singing Darwinian scholar.

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[owlcowl]

I have no "belief", extreme or otherwise, "in" evolution, any more than "in" atomism, i simply accept them as the demonstrable facts of the natural world that scientific investigation has convincingly shown them to be. As for "not one once of proof", when are you going to grasp that "proof" is just not an aspect of scientific knowledge? Its never been definitively "proven" that microbes cause disease; there is simply so much evidence for it that its scarcely imaginable that it could be wrong.

[LynxChan]

Obviously this video has been linked to by some creationist site, or been hit by a votebot otherwise there's no explanation for the rating.

[ganados0]

Even without knowledge of evolution we would have good cause to suspect theist claims are false.

[frankystein12]

No one has made a mockery out of religion quite like Darwin did, whom by this single virtue is enough to be praised.

[biglmac]

I don't like when he talks about man coming from apes, and pointing to the apes we know today. He should really emphasize the "common ancestor" aspect of our comparative evolution with apes.

[shadetail]

Depends on the kind of god. But yeah.

[dwaynbob]

i cant wait for 2012 to see all the dumbass's who believe the worlds ending get proving wrong plus all those people who will off themselves

[Baal1985]

People saying "be openminded to the existence of God". If u repeatly have tested that each time u drop a stone on u feet and instantly u feel your feet is in pain shall I than be openminded that the pain is might not been caused by the stone? Openmindedness is not been open to every junk info u meet but to b openminded that theory X can b wrong IF enough mounting evindence points out Y is more correct. So far evolution has been tested repeatly and we've accepted it's the stone causing the pain

[dummbatz48]

People seem to be afraid of evolution for some reason...

Anyone who doesn't "believe" or accept evolution, I will say, doesn't know what evolution is, that's always been the case as I've seen it

[seamuswarren]

That was excellent. I hope "Darwin" comes to Sydney. :)